Tolerance cannot be measured in terms of degrees of intolerance. I am essentially opposed to burning books even when they incite others to violence. But freedom is either an absolute or it is conditioned on not inciting others to violence. Anything else is rationalized bigotry.

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Thursday, December 11, 2014

Population Transfers and Selective Political Correctness

In 1990 President Bush Senior “convinced”
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir not to retaliate against long range
missiles fired from Iraq
into Tel Aviv.That powerlessness meant
that Israel
had crossed a line in its relationship with the world that in retrospect, it
should never have crossed. The message to the Arab and greater Muslim world was
that Israel
could be coerced into subjugation by Western pressure. Fast forward fifteen years.
Israel unilaterally left Gaza. Palestinians were given an independent state
of their own, if they could behave responsibly.Our mistake was to assume that conflicts can always be resolved by
appeasing bigotry.

I am not supposed to use the four letter “N”
word. But it is time to do so. It is time we all did so.The Hamas regime in Gaza is an Arab and Muslim Nazi regime.Its justification is theological but in the
twenty-first century it can only ever be described as following a racist and
genocidal ideology.Current calls for
Palestinian self-determination do not guarantee Israeli
self-determination.Ignoring calls such
as the following do nothing to engender confidence or further the peace agenda.

“I say to the
Jews loud and clear: The time for your slaughter has come.The time to fight you has come. The time to
kill you has come…Please do not leave in our hearts a single grain of mercy
towards you, oh Jews, because when the day of your slaughter arrives, we shall
slaughter you without mercy,” Omar Abu Sara calls out from al-Aqsa mosque on 28th
November 2014.

This is Israel’s problem.Israel cannot win any current war by appealing to
scales of justice.Winning the
propaganda war is all about appealing to emotions and therefore Israel must
adapt or fail. Israel
must begin to win over public sympathy and global support in its war with the
Palestinians and their allies.It is
morally unwise to argue that Israel’s
failures should be forgiven because of the iniquitous behaviour displayed by
other countries, no matter how grotesque their crimes may be.For Israel to argue that it is unfairly
singled out for microscopic treatment in the international press does not make
any sense when most people quite simply do not understand the conflict to be
anything other than territorial.And we
are fed a daily diet of Palestinian victim-hood which makes their acts of terror
no more than a sick human response, sick but understandable.

Israel’s publicized victories are
therefore paradoxically its numerous enemies greatest weapon against it.Victory and magnanimity are the two sides of
the fair play coin. The problem is that any act of grace is seen as
acquiescence and it must therefore encourage more terror.

Since 911 (September 11, 2001) we in the West
have gone to incredible lengths to emphasize the peaceful nature of Islam and
the maverick and “wholly unislamic” nature of global Muslim crimes.Rarely a day passes that we do not hear news
of yet another Islamic atrocity, or another raid by the security services on
Muslim homes (in order to thwart yet another terror attack against us). The
religion of peace beheads adults and slaughters worshipers as they pray in their
churches and in their synagogues, in their temples and in their mosques.The blood flows on every continent, in so
many different unconnected countries and still our leaders insist on sagely
pronouncing Islam to be a religion of Peace. This Islamic exceptionalism
forgives every crime against humanity committed in the name of their prophet
and their god. The only thing missing is the vision of the aging hippy
surrounded by a sea of bloodied corpses, proclaiming brotherly love. The
message that portrays Islam as a peaceful religion seems somewhat discordant
when viewed against the backdrop of massacre, crucifixion and beheading which
is almost daily carried out in the name of Allah.And rarely does the Muslim world hear words
of condemnation by Muslim leaders.

Hundreds of millions of pounds is spent every
year on fundamentalist Islamic education in the West.The issue is that tolerance is not taught nor
is multi-culturalism celebrated in the network of Western schools controlled
from Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and other Muslim benefactor
nations.For the Nazi, ends always
justify the means. This Nazism is expressed in Muslim bigotry and Muslim terrorism.It is the affliction of the 21st Century. Islamism supports slavery in all its heinous
modes of expression.Its idealization of
Arabian 7th Century codes of aggression, brutality and moral bankruptcy
is responsible for terrible suffering on every continent. Islam’s claim to
being the universal creed for humankind is tainted by its paranoid tribal
fidelity to concepts of shame and honor and these characteristics of the faith
underpin its attitude to everything and everyone.It pre-determines the perception of insult in
every failure and the need to dominate every relationship for the narrow
benefit of an insular Islamic network which derives no benefit from boosting
individual levels of personal or family welfare.It views humanity as pawns in a global power
struggle for the afterlife, therefore, a better human existence in our lifetime
is theologically incidental.

It is politically correct to accept a one sided
colonial narrative of the Arab-Muslim world which is beset by American and
Western imperialism (or its fallout).That same narrative is viewed as progressive and revolutionary rather
than as the fascist and reactionary movement it has always been.

Of course there is extremism in all societies.
Radicalism is simply the holding of extreme views or principles – what makes it
dangerous is that it is almost always extreme in its intolerance towards a
target group in society.The issue is
that when we ignore it, radicalism becomes violent, when it is granted free
rein its natural tendency is towards contemptuous disregard for human rights.

Our current refusal to judge extremism in all
its guises and disguises is poisoning our society.

By ignoring radicalism we encourage the fanatic
to seek to express their position with ever increasing confidence and because
of the publicity it provides, escalating violence.It is only through radical reformation that positive
attitudes towards terror can ever be suppressed, even temporarily.It is a constant battle for theologians and
political leaders, which makes it too easy for fundamentalists to lapse into
self-justification.Islam has not yet
started down the road of acceptance of the idea of peaceful co-existence with
religious competitors. Intermittently and far too frequently it descends a gory
path into Jihad because violence is theologically glorified throughout the
Islamic canon of religious literature.

I recently attended a “London First” conference
titled “Future Sight: The Security of London.”In the course of a ninety minute discussion no-one referred to Islamism
or Islamic education and the challenges to security raised by both. I
approached two of the participants after the event.They told me that Islamism in the West could
only be changed through educating successive generations of Muslims.They were: Michael Clarke, Director General
of the Royal United Services Institute (a prominent British think tank) and
Keith Bristow QPM, Director General of the National Crime Agency.When people of such high profile (as both
men are) publicly express such blind faith in very long-term solutions they
both of them demonstrate the problem society faces.

We do not have “generations” to re-educate
terrorists, or their mass of fellow travellers. You do not reduce terror or suppress
an ideology that incubates terror by selectively excusing it.You cannot hope to eliminate it by ignoring
its presence in high profile public events.

Let’s be clear. Every human being is born
equal.Disability, wealth and personal
ambition should be the only circumstances that mitigate our potential to
exercise full equality.And if there was
a way to alleviate those aspects of inequality, society would benefit from the
endeavor. But society must define and
it does define what is acceptable and therefore, what is legal.And we in turn, are defined by those laws.Multi-culturalism can only ever be limited in
scope because anything that conflicts with our laws in an elemental manner must
be denied legal status.For example: Slavery
is legal in Islam. It is our prejudiced attitudes to the institution of slavery
that outlawed slavery in our society and those anti-slavery laws are what we
wish to bequeath to future generations.So injustice is relative and set by society.
To tackle one strand at a time is not less of an act of discrimination and ignoring
institutional or cultural bigotry as we define it, is a crime against society.

A politically correct urgency to accept a
constant stream of refugees into western society along with the demographic
pressures that accompany Muslim immigration into the West can only increase the
violence in our societies because at no point is there a reciprocal demand made
of our latest immigrants.There is no
demand to renounce an ideology that is anti-Western, anti-Semitic and yes,
anti-Christian too.

We have today, more openly expressed hatred,
intolerance and prejudice in society than at any time since the Second World
War.The veneer of tolerance and
civility in society is dropping.Ultimately,
the internal contradictions between the peaceful ideals of our society and the
mounting violence we are seeing expressed in both word and deed must cause a
break down of civil society.

To the United Nations and European Refugee
Commissioners, with tears in their eyes and six figure salaries, the
consequences that we must suffer now or in the future because of their
benevolence can not ever be justified by their pleas for our mercy, not when it
is at our expense.As a first step
towards de-fanging the beast, it is time to end refugee resettlement and
funding.Only then will the Muslim world
start to confront its own demons.